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It was a beautiful sunny afternoon in Lincroft, and NJ Private school, Oak Hill Academy, which was hosting a fundraiser for technology in the form of a Walk-a-thon. Here's a glimpse of the day: Photos from the Walk-a-thon 2016 Walk-a-thon Grand Marshalls Thank you to Miss DiMaggio and Mr. Read more

Congratulations to the Forensics Team for amazing performances at Ranney’s Invitational Forensics Competition held this past Saturday, May 7th. OHA once again swept the 7th grade dramatic pairs division!!! In first place Jordan Codispoti & Kaley Hanlon, in second place Mason Read more

Congratulations to the Mathleague Team that competed on April 28 in the NJ States at Kent Place School. Oak Hill won the 1st Place Team (Alex Mitchell, Aarya Doshi, Elizabeth Wright & Michael Gao) and the 5th Place Team (Robert Schweikert, Justin Weber, Maria Giannakopoulos & Rahul Read more

Cast of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" Photos from the performance "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" Snoopy & Woodstock "TEAM" performed by Oak Hill's cast of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" Charlie Brown Kicks a Football "Suppertime" "Little Known Facts" "Happiness" Read more

Congratulations to 6th grader, Alex Mitchell for his 8th place finish in the State Level National Geographic Bee, which was held on April 1st , at RowanUniversity. Approximately 500 schools participated in the School Level Geography Bee, and 116 students from that group qualified to Read more

Congratulations to 7th grader,Sydney Yan. In February she was accepted into the All-State Regions Orchestra for middle school students in Central Jersey and performed in an outstanding concert on March 5th. By being accepted into the All-State Regions Orchestra, she qualified to Read more

Today, First Grade was visited by Mrs. Griffith (Henry's mom), her mother, and Henry's babysitter, as well as, Mrs. Assa (Julien's mom) to teach us about Nowruz. Nowruz is a Persian New Year tradition which is celebrated on the first day of Spring. Students learned how to write different names Read more

On March 14, 2016, Mrs. Cotterell hosted the 4th Annual Pi Recitation contest in the Commons! After the digits settled, 6th grader, Justin Weber, defended his title and upped the anty to a school record of 490 consecutive digits of Pi! 6th Grader, Justin Weber, recites 490 digits of Pi! A new Read more

On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Oak Hill Academy’s Lower School (Grades K-4) was recreated for a day to resemble the wonderful South American country of Brazil. Throughout the day, children shared all that they have been learning about the culture, food, and activities that make up Brazil. Read more

Sandy Hook, NJ - Dating back to last spring, Oak Hill Academy took home First place for the third straight time (out of a 32 team field) hosted by the Marine Academy of Science and Technology (M.A.S.T.) Jeopardy style academic competition on Friday, March 4 at their M.A.S.T. campus on Sandy Hook. Read more

After Traveling to Italy this past summer and playing with AC Milan in
their youth sector, Oak Hill Academy fourth grader and player from
Player Development Academy (PDA) Dimitry Corba, has been selected and
invited back to play with there 2005, Youth academy team
(2005)ESORDIENTI BOYS1. Read more

Mrs. Rita Cotterell, an upper school math teacher at Oak Hill Academy,
took a group of 7 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students to Union
County College for the Math Counts competition for Middlesex, Union and
Monmouth Counties on Saturday, January 30, 2016.
The MATHCOUNTS Competition Program is a Read more

Congratulations to the Oak Hill Academy Math team for their 1ST PLACE
AWARD as the top team at the St. Joseph (Metuchen, NJ) High School
Mathematics Competition that was held on Saturday, January 16th!
Mrs. Palamara took a group of thirteen 6th, 7th & 8th graders up to
Metuchen for our maiden Read more

Lego Robotics is a collaborative 2nd grade project where the students studied Simple Machines with Mrs. Cahalane in Science.
Learning about pulleys, levers, wheel & axles and gears, they built robots using Legos and these simple machines.
Then they brought their robots to Mrs. Griller' Read more

Another holiday season marks another opportunity for the Students
at Oak Hill Academy to help those who are less fortunate. It is
extremely important and beneficial for students to be given
opportunities where they help individuals who come from difficult walks
of life.
The Oak Hill Read more

Congratulations to our Elks Hoop Shoot Contestants who took home 5 of
the 6 First Place trophies and have qualified for the district level in
Old Bridge on January 9!
Girl Winners: Ella Skelton (8-9); Samantha AbdelBarry (10-11); Joan
Hager (12-13);
Boys: Jack Mandarino(8-9); Nicholas Read more

Congratulations to the team of Robert Schweikert (5th), Cadence Li
(5th), Samantha Kanevsky (5th) and Alexey Stout (6th) for coming in 1st
place at the NJ Math LEague held at Stuart Country Day on Saturday.
Robert was also the top 5th grader.
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Congratulations to the Mrs. Matson, Mrs. Vacca and the Model UN Team for Winning the Best Delegation Award at the CBA Model United Nations
competition on Friday, November 20.
The team also brought home many individual honors:
Sydney Yan (7th) - Honorable mention for Joint Korean Crisis
Thomas Read more

Congratulations to Mrs. Devivo and the Forensics team for a job well
done at the Rumson Country Day Forensics Competition on Saturday.
Leah Wilson Took home 1st place in the 7th/8th grade Humorous Monologue;
Tess Loures 1st place in the 6th grade Humorous Monologue; Alex
Mitchell and Maria Read more

For the first time since 1991, both the boys and girls soccer teams reached the MCISSL (Monmouth County Interscholastic Soccer League) Conference Finals. Oak Hill Academy was the only school (out of 57 total teams from 29 different schools) to have both of its teams represented this season in Read more

Congratulations to the OHA 4-6th grade students who competed in the Mathleague Competition at Ranney on Wednesday, Oct. 21st. Oak Hill Academy was the first place school! The team of Elizabeth Wright, Aarya Doshi, Alexander Mitchell and Michael Gao came in 1st place, while the team of Molly Jain, Read more

Oak Hill Academy eighth grade student, Thomas Wang, (Marlboro) was one of only 29 students nationwide, and the sole NJ student, named as a recipient of the prestigious Caroline D. Bradley scholarship. “The Caroline D. Bradley scholarship is a full four-year, merit-based high school Read more
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Our Headmaster, Mr. Joseph A. Pacelli, was named as one of the "Two River People Making a Difference" in the special 25th Anniversary edition of the Two River Times on September 24! Congratulations Mr. Pacelli! Read more

Over the summer, Oak Hill Academy renovated a section of a former classroom / library to make it a state of the art TechnologyCenter for its Lower school students as well as some Upper school language classes. The Lower School Tech center is located off of the Upper school technology center Read more

On June 12, 2015 the Class of 2015 graduated from Oak Hill Academy at the annual graduation ceremony held in the Scire Student Activities Center. Their guest speaker, Brother Frank Byrne, is the President of Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft. He spoke about all of the fine Read more

Have you ever asked yourself a problem like this: “How many of the square numbers from 12, 22, 32…20152 have exactly 7 divisors?” Well if you were one of the students in grades four to six that competed in the National Mathleague.org competition, this is just one of the many problems that you would Read more

Every year our 8th Grade Spanish Students celebrate El Cinco de Mayo. This year’s theme was artists of Spanish speaking countries. To get ready for this project, our Spanish Teacher, Señora Dotto formed groups and each group researched the artist assigned to them. After they Read more
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The curtain went up on Thursday, March 26 in the Scire Student
Activities Center for Oak Hill Academy's annual school play. This year
it was drama teacher, Mrs. Bridget E. DeVivo's adaptation of William
Shakespeare's, "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Video Montage of "A Midsummer Read more

Mrs. Devivo, Drama Teacher at Oak Hill Academy, directed a fantastic
performance of the 2014 School Play: "The Wizard of Oz". Our play was
an adaption of the 1939 Motion Picture staring Judy Garland.
Just as the movie began in black & white; so did our performance.
Dorothy Read more